11 Convicted of Extremist Crimes in Xinjiang

Eight of those convicted came from the old Silk Road city of Kashgar, the Justice Ministry’s official newspaper Legal Daily reported on its website.

In one of the cases, the suspect went on illegal websites to download material that “whipped up religious fervour and preached ‘holy war'” and “whipped up ethnic enmity”, the Legal Daily said in its report late on Wednesday.

“This created a despicable effect on society,” the newspaper said, citing the court ruling.

Another suspect was jailed for spreading via the internet materials from overseas that “advocate religious extremism and terrorism”, the newspaper reported. Legal Daily said Aihetaimu Heli was given the harshest sentence of six years in jail for uploading to the internet materials promoting jihad and ethnic hatred. [Source]

The longest sentence, the six-year term given to Aihetaimu Heli for uploading extremist materials to the web, was handed down in the city of Aksu. In addition to that and the eight suspects imprisoned in Kashgar, the Global Times adds that two others were given short administrative detentions:

Local police in Bachu put a man in detention for 15 days and fined him 500 yuan ($81.5), after he uploaded to his blog audio files by overseas terrorist organizations in April, which spread ideas on religious extremism and terrorism to incite hatred among ethnic groups.

Similarly, a local resident surnamed Gu was given a five-day administrative detention by police in Urumqi after fabricating rumors about suicide bombings on the online messaging service QQ on May 21. [Source]